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ALPINE-CVE-2026-11940

tarfile.extractall() with the 'data' or 'tar' filter could be bypassed by a crafted archive where a hardlink references a symlink stored at a deeper...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

tarfile.extractall() with the 'data' or 'tar'
filter could be bypassed by a crafted archive where a hardlink
references a symlink stored at a deeper name than the hardlink itself. 
The extraction fallback validated the symlink at it's archived location
but recreated it at the hardlink's shallower
path, letting a relative
target the filter judged contained escape the destination directory. 
This allowed a malicious tar archive to create a symlink pointing
outside the destination, enabling out-of-destination file reads or
writes. This was an incomplete fix of CVE-2025-4330.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.21 python3
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.12.14-r0"}]}]
Alpine:v3.22 python3
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.12.14-r0"}]}]
Alpine:v3.23 python3
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.12.14-r0"}]}]
Alpine:v3.24 python3
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.14.7-r0"}]}]

References

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